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Cultivating Leadership to Drive Business Results
Like many companies, we favor the concept of promoting from within for leadership positions. However, when we took a closer look at the makeup of our leadership team a few years ago, we realized we ...
‘B’ Is for Behavioral: What Big Data Means for Insurance
Big data is one of the signature issues of our time—and also one of the more poorly understood. Discussions of the topic often are clouded by what I call the "two dogmas of big data." The first is ...
Straight Talk from Industry CEOs at ACE and Travelers
Great leaders promote trust and open communication, experts increasingly argue. Property/casualty insurance executives understand this, especially in times of great change—a fact that was in ...
Objects In Mirror May Be Closer Than They Appear
I have a CD player in my relatively new luxury sports sedan. It plays five—or maybe six—CDs so I can be surrounded by music I choose and like all through even a reasonably long journey. Or maybe ...
Confident, Motivated Women in Insurance Need Male Mentors: Research
Two recently released studies of insurance industry leadership reveal some positive trends on gender diversity measures. But executive teams still have few women, researchers say, concluding that the ...
Critical Considerations for Integrating Underwriting and Policy Administration Systems
As advanced technology and predictive modeling continue to shape the evolution of insurance operations, two systems remain at the heart of most commercial and specialty insurance ...
Global Insurance Forum Rewind: Underwriters Lead Industry Renaissance, McGavick Says
There is a renaissance happening in the property/casualty insurance industry, and underwriters are at the forefront of the shift back to relevance, according to the leader of XL Catlin. Michael ...
A Different Take on Insurance Price Optimization
Bill Gausewitz, Esq., recently published an intriguing article in Carrier Management that supports insurers using "price optimization" approaches to make profits. He pits "…business goals of growth ...